Your friendly big brother

India's foreign minister, S.M. Krishna, gushes about the close “civilisational, cultural” ties his country shares with Sri Lanka. He notes how India is the biggest trading partner and source of tourists for the island nation, plus one of the largest investors. It dishes out pots of aid, including roughly $300m for 50,000 Tamils, displaced in a brutal civil war that ended in 2009, to build houses near Kilinochchi and Jaffna in Sri Lanka’s north. And India is building a power station, and renovating railways and a port.

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